SKY Breath Meditation
Used by tens of millions to
Be Resilient to Life's Challenges
Improve Physical and Mental Wellbeing
Free Introduction to SKY Breath Meditation
Learn about SKY Breath Meditation that is helping millions be resilient to life's challenges and live with enthusiasm.
During this interactive 75 minute session, you will be guided by a certified instructor. We keep these experiential sessions small to provide personal attention to participants, so reserve your seat now!
You will learn 1 or more breathing techniques that you may practice on your own in addition to a guided meditation!
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Yale Study: SKY vs Mindfulness
A randomized controlled study run by Yale University scientists evaluated the effect of SKY and two other programs - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Emotional Intelligence - on undergraduate well-being as compared to a control group. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction showed no improvement compared to the control group, Emotional Intelligence showed one improvement (mindfulness) and SKY had the highest results of all the programs, benefiting stress, depression, mental health, mindfulness, positive emotion and social connectedness.
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry | Clinical Trial Article
How you Breathe Impacts Your Health
“No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.” — James Nestor
James Nestor is the author of Breath: the New Science of a Lost Art, a New York Times bestseller, and Amazon chart-topper. In his book, Nestor travels the world to explore the science behind ancient breathing practices.
He combines cutting-edge studies to uncover why humans lost the ability to breathe correctly and how to remedy it. In this video, he shares his personal, transformative experience with SKY Breath Meditation (Sudarshan Kriya) and how it helped launch him on his research quest.
Breath and Your Wellbeing
Can you manage your mind using your mind?
Try this. Do not think of a blue elephant. What is on your mind?
If you happen to be tossing in bed, can you talk your mind to go to sleep?
Breath holds a lot of secrets that is worth knowing!
Research shows that breathing and emotional states are tightly coupled processes that greatly influence each other. Emotional states change the quality and patterns of respiration. In turn, respiration patterns can alter the emotional state.
SKY Breath Meditation is distinct because it uses specific patterns of breath to automatically settle the mind into deep meditation without any mental effort, concentration or observation. Its effects have been studied in open and randomized trials, both in healthy populations and in populations with psychopathology. SKY is both self-empowering and a low cost approach to improving ones physical and mental/emotional vitality.
Hear from SKY Breath Meditation graduates
Regular practice of SKY Breath Meditation brings sustained benefits to be resilient to life's challenges. It improves the quality of perception and expression, clarity of thought, increases your energy level and enthusiasm in whatever you do.
Energy Levels and Our Wellbeing
What are our sources of energy?
You probably knew right amounts of food and sleep are sources of energy for our mind-body system.
Did you know that breath is an important source of energy? Breath can play a big role in our physical and emotional resilience.
Low energy levels impact mental wellbeing resulting in self doubt, brain fog, anxiety, depression and so on.
What is Stress?
Here is a simple way to think about stress. When life's demands on you is more than your capacity to handle, it can result in stress to your mind body system.
For most of us, increasing our energy level to meet expectation of us is the only practical option.
SKY Breath Meditation includes breath-work (pranayama) that increases energy levels to power through the demands of life.
HBR Research Sep 2020
"SKY Breath Meditation technique will train your nervous system for resilience over the long run"
— Harvard Business Review Sep 29, 2020
A comprehensive daily breathing protocol such as the SKY Breath Meditation technique will train your nervous system for resilience over the long run. These simple techniques can help you sustain greater wellbeing and lower your stress levels — at work and beyond.
To get an idea of how breathing can calm you down, try changing the ratio of your inhale to exhale. This approach is one of several common practices that use breathing to reduce stress. When you inhale, your heart rate speeds up. When you exhale, it slows down.
About SKY Breath Meditation
Discover the power of your own breath to relieve stress and boost your immune system.
Powerful tools to build and sustain psychological resilience
Over 97 studies across four continents demonstrate a comprehensive set of benefits resulting from regular practice of SKY Breath Meditation.
SKY Breath Meditation is reported to be a foundational tool for maintaining and improving mental health by the Harvard Medical School and International Journal of Yoga. This science-backed breath-meditation technique quickly calms anxiety, releases stress, and boosts immunity.
Independent research has shown that SKY Breath Meditation
Reduces cortisol - the stress hormone
Supports the immune system
Increases optimism
Relieves anxiety and depression
Increases antioxidant production
Enhances brain function (increased mental focus, calmness and recovery from stressful stimuli)
Enhances well-being and peace of mind
Other Published Research
Review skycampushappiness.org/research for a summary of select research publications about SKY Breath.
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